India-rubber tires on gashiacs-s-wheels



J. A. GREENE] Fastening Rubber Tires 0 n )arri'age Wheels.

No. 8 4 ,878. I

Patented .Dec. 15, 1868.

.6 a m w J. ASHTON GREENE, OFBROOKLYN N'EWYORK.

Letters Patent 1%. 84,878, dated December 15, lacs.

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. The Schedule reflex-red 1:6 in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To whom it may concern v Be it known that I, J. Asrrrox GREENE, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements '-in Attaching India-Rubber Tires to Carriage-Wheels; and I hereby declare the following to be a'full, clear and exactdescription of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which i Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of a wheel to which my improvements are applied. Figure 2 is a sectional perspective'view of the same, exhibiting more clearly the means employed for unitiu g the rubber tire with the wheel.

Figure 3 is a like View of a wheel, representing a modification oi the fiistening-device for uniting the rubber tire with the rim of the wheel.

India-rubber tireshave heretofore been applied to the wheels' of vehicles, but onlyby the employment of mpans', .inmany-respects,- unsuitable-1hr common andgeneral use, for the reason that the methods devised have required a special form of metal tire, with flanges on each side for holding the rubber. Such tires are not onlyexpensive, but cannot be used as ordinary tires,

so thatwhen once applied to wheels, the latter are unfitted for use without anxiliary'rubber tires.

} Myinvention, which is intended to obviate the aboverecited and other. defects, consists in the method of-at-' taching an IndiaPrubb er or elastic tire to tl e ordinary.

'n etal tirebfla wheel, by means of nuts, bolts, and

springs ela-sps, or other removableand adjustable as suing-devices, so that thewheel may be adapted for use either with or without the rubber tire.

, ".Under my invention, the bolts for holding the rubber tire tothe wheel pass'tlir'ou'gh both the rubber and 'metal tires and the woodenrim.

As the compression of the'rubber at the point where the wheel rests onthe ground will be greater than at other points on the wheel, the boltand not at that point will be apt to loose,'unless prevented by suitable means, and to this end Icoinbiue, with the bolt, 2. spring, of rubberor its-equivalent, insuch-ma'unor that whetherthe compression of the rubber begreater or less, the bolt willialwaysbe held tightly and secuuely in itsproper position, thus preventingnot only jarring or rattling, butalsothe, displacement of the rubber tire. v p 1 To enable'othersskilled in the aitto understand and use ily-invention, I will now proceed to describe the inanuer in wliich thesame is or may be cam'edainto' efiect, by reference-to the accompanying drawings.

The felloe 'oririm, bf the wheel, and the'fiat metal tire v1B, are of Grumman/mam amas-a gather-in theiusnslma nn, v p d the exterior of1the tal -t irc,'-I;-.place.;;flie, jrnbbei', tire O, which'is attached to theformrby means 1 of the bolts a, b,'figs. 1- and 2,6rthe claspsh 'fig. a, or equivalent detachable-fastening andtightene ingUevi'ces v nder-theiaijgangement shown in figs; 1 and 2, the

construction being shown in the drawings.

One end of the clamp catches, and is secured. uml r bolts 0, provided with broadflat heads d, are passed through holes made in the rubber and metal tires and Tahoe, and are then secured in position. by means of nuts I), which are screwed up against thefelloe, until the heads, at, are drawn tightly down upon the rubber tire.

- As that part of the rubber which rests on the ground pressed when the'n'nt'is tightly screwed up against it, it follows, when the rubber tire is compressed, and the v pressure. or hold of the nut is consequently relaxed, that the spring-disk will expand in the direction of the nut, which, together with the bolt, will be held tightly ,and'firmlyin position; 7 Instead of using the-bolts and nuts all, I can employ the clasps or clamps 71, seen infig. 3. These clamps may be made either in one or two pieces, the latter the metal tire or the felloe, and the other extends around, and is inserted from the side into the body of t the rubbertire. They are arranged'in pairs, opposite each other, each pair constituting, in. efiect,a set of jaws,- held together by a bolt, t, the ends of which pass through and are riveted or otherwise suitablysecure'd to the clamps. I v

Insteadof the foregoing devices, other equivalent,

adj nstable, and removable clasping or clamping-devices 1 may; be employed, which will hold the parts together, leaving, at the same time," the metal tire unimpaired,

"and in condition toybe used atany time by sirnply removing the rubber tire and fastening-devices; and this feature constitutes thechief merit ofmy invention, 'for, while there is but little expense involved, I can convert the elasticgtired wheel into anordinary wheel, or vice versa, withlthe greatest ease and expedition.

7 Having now described my invention, and the manner in which the same i801 may be carried; into eli'ect,,. What I- claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-- ent, is-+ 1; The 'rietho'dof attaching it India-rubber tire to the ordinary flat-metal tire of a 'wheel, .by means of detachable and removable fastening-devices, substantiallyas and fort-he purposes herein described;

. 2. The hei'eimdescfibed bolts, nuts, and springs'forholdingtogether theirubberand metaltires, the same being arranged and applied to. the wheel, substantially asshow'n and setf forth. i

"lnte'stimony whereof} I havesigned nayname to speo'ifioatipn, before two subscribing witnesses.

p J.' ASHT01 I ennnnn; Witnesse'sz:

HENRY A, Twrmn'," Jonnflnsnr McOoY. 

